X.Org Foundation Status Update

Peter Hutterer

17 Sep 2015

XDC 2015

Thanks to Tom for organising XDC!

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more applause

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X.Org Board of Directors

X.Org Board of Directors

Elected for 2 years at a time

The BoD decides distribution of funds

The BoD does not control the technical direction of X, Wayland, Mesa, ...

X.Org Foundation PR accounts

X.Org Membership

Join up, get the benefits

http://members.x.org/

Google Summer of Code

EVoC

The Endless Vacation of Code is X.Org's GSoC equivalent, but unrestricted by timeframes.

1 project, ongoing

EVoC Changes

We need to handle EVoC better

Future projects only from known contributors

Outreachy (Outreach Program for Women)

Outreachy is a GSoC-like program for anyone who identifies as female.

http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/

X.Org had one participant in Round 9 (Dec 2014 - March 2015)

XDC Travel sponsorship

The X.Org Board approved travel sponsorships for

SPI merger

X.Org is an LLC with 501(c)3 tax status in the US

  • All we do is XDC, GSoC, EVoC and Outreachy
  • We are not good at administrative tasks

Decided to merge with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)

  • http://spi-inc.org

Benefits: offload administrative

SPI merger

By-law changes need to get approved by 2/3 of the membership.

April vote:

SPI merger

Annual BoD election is planned for February

By-law vote will be at the same election

We need 2/3 vote! Please vote!

X.Org Foundation Summary